Kristin Brzoznowski

LUXEMBOURG: Despite seeing lower profit for the nine months ended September 30, RTL Group posted a revenue increase of 2.1 percent to €4.2 billion ($4.6 billion).

LONDON: The U.K.'s independent television production sector is now worth just short of £3 billion ($3.73 billion) to the U.K. economy, rebounding from the decline the industry saw in 2014.

MUNICH: Tele München Group (TMG) and Amazon Prime Video have sealed an output deal, granting exclusive rights to a package of feature films that includes Emerald Green.

AMSTERDAM: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is expanding Spike into a 24-hour channel on Ziggo in the Netherlands, where it has been airing as a five-hour block since November 2015.

Film and TV fiction offerings make up a dominant 61 percent of all pay on-demand services in Europe, compared with only 14 percent of TV channels, according to new figures from the European Audiovisual Observatory.

LONDON: In its latest annual report, the U.K.’s Channel 5 recorded operating profit of £58.4 million ($71.8 million), compared to the £14.9 million ($18.3 million) for the previous financial year.

LONDON: Steve November, a 16-year veteran of ITV, has been hired as creative director for U.K. television at Lionsgate.

DUBLIN: ARTE and RTÉ are each planning to contribute a minimum of €250,000 per year for an initial two-year term toward the development of co-productions in 2017 and 2018, focusing on the areas of arts, culture, factual, history and natural history.

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 Group had a healthy third quarter, with revenues up by 15 percent to 857 million euros ($949 million) and recurring EBITDA increasing 13 percent to 202 million euros ($224 million).

LONDON: Sky's flagship entertainment channel, Sky 1, is making its debut in Germany and Austria.